prestado

/[pɾesˈt̪að̞o]/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,343

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

prestado is aSpanishverb. It means: Participio de prestar o de prestarse. Pronounced [pɾesˈt̪að̞o]. It ranks #6,343 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with presto and prestar.

Key facts for prestado
PropertyValue
Headwordprestado
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[pɾesˈt̪að̞o]
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,343
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of prestado in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for prestado is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾesˈt̪að̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,343 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participio de prestar o de prestarse.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for prestado, with forms such as "perstado", "pprestado", and "presatdo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "presto", "prestar", "prestan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is prestado, spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participio de prestar o de prestarse.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: perstado,pprestado,presatdo,presstado,prestaddo,prestaod,prestdao,presttado,pretsado,prrestado,prsetado,rpestado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prestado

Misspelling Variants of "prestado"

perstado8pprestado9presatdo8presstado9prestaddo9prestaod8prestdao8presttado9
Misspelling Variants of "prestado"

Frequency rank: #6,343 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prestado"?
"prestado" is spelled P-R-E-S-T-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾesˈt̪að̞o].
What does "prestado" mean?
As a verb, "prestado" means: Participio de prestar o de prestarse.
What words are commonly confused with "prestado"?
"prestado" is commonly confused with "presto", "prestar", "prestan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prestado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prestado" is [pɾesˈt̪að̞o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prestado" come from?
"prestado" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.